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      ¦ On the Letters against Materialism . D 4 j ?

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      Jennings , in hk Jewish Ami . < , u £ , v oLi . 433-436 , ( 1808 . ) sneaks of the Karaites as being anciently a co nsiderable sect vftch still exists in Poland and Russia , bat chiefly in Turkey and Eaypt- He adds , that they have their name from a Chaldee word of nearly the same sound , because they adhered to the scriptures , as tie whole and only rule of their faith and practice . " This description of the Karaites may nlso be found , in substance , in Dr . Kcnnicott ' s Dissertatw Gen * trails * .

      A far more elaborate account of them maj be seen in Buxtorf ' s Lexic : Talmud . 21 II , he . The following sentences are remarkable : — " Karraeus , q . d . Scriptuarius , Biblicus , tyc *—Secta fuit prima inter Judczos , quce rejecit umnes traditiones et constitutwues majorum et seniorum in Ecclesid Judaicd * et soli lextui

      mordich inhcesit . Now , after consulting these authorities , I am rather disinclined , to " admit , with Dr . Clarke , that the Karaites make a point of copying the bible , or cop ious commentaries upon it . In justice , nevertheless , to this author , I should observe , that Piideaux . ( Connection , &c , Partii . Book v . W 7 yr . B . C . ) does not consider the &W'aifc Jews as absolutely rejectingall traditions , and that heccnfaras , moreover , the testimony of Clarke to their numbers , their teniag and their probity . I am , Sir ,

      Your obedient humUle servant , N . * § 41-

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      On the Letters against Material * ism .

      [ Concluded from p . 59 8 . } With respect to arguments drawn from th <* scripture , [ really thought it had been long ago agreed amongst that order of Christirins to which Unitarians belong that Jesus Christ did not come into the world to teach metaph ysics , and that , like the author of the history of the sun ' s standing still , he did not make it his business to set men right in their phi * losophical , or rather , unphiloso *

      phical notions . If I wished to prove the doctrine 01 a resurrection , and the necessity ot a virtuous life , in order to out partaking in that resurrection , I should consider the New Testament , my best authority ; but , I conceive , it no way derogates from the . dignity of that book , to maintain thri'o " it does not contain one argumeru

      worth a moment ' s thought in i ' avour of either the material or the immaterial scheme . Bit . as i ? r , P . is fond ot a literal an £ tr ; ' . v . ' iK from the lestarncni w < e . wih . ^* ; whither such arguniei . ts wiii r i > rid , iC The scripture account , oi a resurrection and of a t "; itiir ; .: ' -p should not be understood in u , o literal a sense , it is ev ;* ien .: iy

      adapted to the ordinary c . ij ) acifi < & of mankind . " And , if 1 h 1 s be true of what we esteem the grand doc *» trine of revelation , is it not equally true of the expressions used © 1 % the subject of mind , which is not the object of revelation ? Neither Jesus nor Paul undertook to de ^ scribe the thinking principle of man at all , but employed the lasu guage in common use , "whqn they had qccasion incidentally to men * lion it . Supposing thatth ^ y kn ^ re ?

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/9/